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Arguments over free speech on campus are not left vs right

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And this is why the 487s should be ignored. They can’t even agree with themselves on what is right or wrong. Reed College is in Portland, OR.

Last academic year, a dozen or so students continuously occupied the three-day-a-week lecture series by sitting in front of the auditorium with cardboard signs, sometimes taping their mouths in protest at the absence of non-white voices in the syllabus. One even took to lecturing the freshman class on the podium from an alternate curriculum before the start of each session. Read more here.